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On the subject of Chinese cars or any cars with Chinese components - the Brits are wary too. 🍻

As I've mentioned before, when in 2 RCHA with our AMF(L) role we did month long winter exercises with no vehicles - just guns, ammo, helicopters and tents. Snowshoeing was a pretty regular thing and not just restricted to a winter warfare course. Skiing not so much. It was more recreational...

But even broken folks can substitute attending the odd weekend exercise for offsetting days off on a Monday and Tuesday. If they are that broken that they can't do that then they are not worth retaining and should be medically released. I don't want to generalize too much, but IMHO the issue...

Sigh. :rolleyes:

There is probably more the question of buying or creating the machinery that makes the part. Assembly as you say is akin to putting together a Lego kit that only requires limited skills supported by quality control. A truly independent maintenance system requires having the tools and dies...

That's him. Ron was a great guy and excellent officer indeed. I too always wondered where that nickname came from. He was anything but "awful." 🫡

We should have been doing this for decades. I can't see any reason why we can't have a low-level manufacturer turn out logistics vehicles at a slow rate to replace them at the rate of several hundred per year. We should have had GDLS working on a project to build a true tracked IFV fleet and SP...

I went to MMD in '76. If I recall correctly he retired from the RegF in 79 and then transferred to the ARes and became CO of the RWpgR. 🍻

It doesn't. That's just screwing people. The regiment I worked with also paraded each Tuesday and Thursday night. Tuesday was admin and Thursday training. My clerk and I attended both evenings and in compensation didn't come in until noon on those days. My trg WO and Bdr storeman came in only...

In my experience being out with them had attendance pick up because the exercises ran better. Compensatory time off is just proper leadership. Our regiment ran two weekends per month and our RSS established workweek had every Monday off with Tuesdays as well if it was a long weekend...

Yeah. I saw those stats and found it thought provoking. I guess a lot of young American women have read or watched "The Handmaid's Tale." :giggle:

Being politically overwrought would most probably lead to a genuine desire to leave. It is likely though that the practicality of leaving ones friends and family behind and starting from scratch in another country is what gets in the way. My guess is that amongst the younger folks in the US...

I always like to think that I was one of those. I did manage to more than quadruple the regiment's live fire field time. We did that by leveraging MilArea's unexpended annual ammo allocation each year by holding a winter indoctrination live fire weekend at the end of March (which in itself...

Sigh. My predecessor was one of those . . . and he didn't even use the "office work" as an excuse - just that he only worked Mon to Fri. The unit hated his guts. Luckily so did the SSO Dist at PER time. His career was short lived. 🍻

I think I need to get away from this thread for about 6 months until all the speculation and guesswork get out of it. I've got about a hundred ideas as to what a home guard / strategic reserve should be - and @Kirkhill has another hundred - but that doesn't help in trying to figure out what the...

So how does this MRes differ from all other mobilizable reserves in order to earn the name "Mobilization Reserve?" Maybe it should be called "The People we mobilize just before the cadet instructors Reserve." Sorry. My cynicism is showing again. :rolleyes:

Yup. And that war in particular did lead a number of countries in Europe to start building royal or standing armies. You're totally right. That's why hold that Vietnam did more for our national attitude about the military as we watched on a daily basis film on TV from both Vietnam and the...

I guess the takeaway from this is that if it isn't working, then one is doing it wrong and one needs to look at other options regardless of how poor one thinks those options are. Armies do not like to compromise with society. That's how irrelevance gets its start. :(